US election 2016: Can Clinton win over Republican moderates?

 

Some may have expected Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton to swing further left to woo supporters of her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders ahead of the California primary on Tuesday.

Instead she came out swinging against Donald Trump in a scathing speech that made clear she's looking to appeal to a broad centre in the general election.

Billed as a national security speech, her address lacked any new proposals. Instead it was a forceful, often mocking, rebuke of the presumptive Republican nominee, as she framed her pitch in patriotic terms that could also resonate with Republicans.

Mrs. Clinton presented herself as the real defender of American values and a commander-in-chief with a steady hand who believed in America as an exceptional country.

Mr Trump on the other hand, "believes America is weak. An embarrassment. He called our military a disaster. He said we are, and I quote, a third-world country," said Mrs Clinton, speaking in San Diego, a city with 95,000 military personnel.